I am wanting to build a home server with the idea of running a Proxmox server running multiple VMs include:
True NAS Scale for a home NAS running RAID 5
Plex/Jelly Fin server
running multiple VMs for various home lab learning environment i.e. building a mock AD environment / test various OS / docker environments / pfSense. Just anything that i want to dip my toes into
Doesnât that motherboard only have 4 Sata slots? Now youâre stuck with an HBA instead of 10gig (which imo you likely donât need given that I donât think your pool will even saturate the built-in 2.5gig).
*edit: just read the
Iâd avoid that - sounds like a port multiplier to me & those have been known to cause devastating failures⌠though some folks swear âthey workâ - until they come back to the forum asking for help to recover their data.
Consensus will likely be that you donât need & shouldnât use any kind of âcacheâ unless you have a well defined & specific use case and understand which cache you need & why (l2arc, slog, special vdev, etc). Otherwise youâll likely get no performance benefit, or possibly performance degradation; otherwise chance of data loss (see special vdev).
Iâd personally avoid putting my router on my NAS (you mention pfSense).
You didnât specify your budget - but how would you feel about something like a X570D4I-2T instead? There is also a crazy cheap gigabyte board that used to be very popular on the forums, but I canât remember the name (was something like ~$50 and with loads of features), but it might have been microATX instead of miniATX.
In short Iâd try to get at least a slightly larger motherboard as I guarantee youâll eventually want to visualize stuff, pass through devices, etc. & thatâll suck when you just donât have the pcie ports to do everything you want. Youâll be paying a premium for less features due to smaller size.
The case has 6 HDD bays, so fill these! 6-wide raidz2 is also safer than 5-wide raidz1.
And that means you want a motherboard with at least 6 SATAâno compromise on this!
You will also need more SSD storage for your VMs. One more reason to have good NIC onboard to keep some PCIe lanes. (Or get a second hand server NIC rather this TP-Link card.)
No need for a SFX PSU: The case takes regular ATX.
(As for 4 TB HDDs, this is something I cannot understand. Any storage below 10 TB should be SSD these daysâŚ)
European market only.
The MC12-LE0 is unfortunately no longer available for 50-60 âŹ. It is micro-ATX, and not exactly âfeature-richâ (x16+x4 slots, 6 SATA, 1 M.2 x1, IPMI) but still a good server board.
In mini-ITX size, the MJ11-EC1 is still available for pocket change and can make a nice little server but you want to carefully consider its limitations (8 SATA, 1 M.2 x4, IPMI, 2*i210⌠and a SFF-8654-8i that is excessively fiddly if you want to have further PCIe lanes).
I meant compared to motherboard OP proposed. Having IPMI, more sata ports, option for ryzenâs half supported ecc (instead of no ecc) etc⌠but yeah - maybe âfeature-richâ is a stretch outside of that specific comparison
